skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe people are more likely to perceive the behaviour of others towards them as racist, if they are racist themselves?
That perhaps the accuser should be looked at as critically as the accused.
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The problem with proof of work is that botnets have amongst the most work available.
Exotics have large oil pans. Your typical Murcielago requires 11 liters of oil to change, and that's synthetic, not dinosaur oil. Add to that an oil filter that is shipped from Italy. You're also changing the transmission oil, which also must be synthetic. There may be some other maintenance that the dealer likes to perform (brake fluid? spark plugs?) at the same time as an oil change. Add dealer markup and insurance to all of this and you're easily over $500.
I don't feel that this is a recurring issue in the startup industry. However based on my past work experience, this is definitely not an isolated incident for the video game industry. The only difference between different companies is how they handle it when it arises.

I do remember when working at one of the big three video game publishers:

1) HR and managers would repeatedly educate both new workers and existing employees on both racial discrimination and sexual harassment on a semi-quarterly basis.

2) HR would give anonymous surveys regarding workplace environment every quarter.

Regarding the last item, at my last stint at a gaming company; a co-worker reported a case of racial discrimination and it was handled promptly and professionally. There was no time for anyone to blog about the subject. I'm going to agree with other people, HR wasn't doing their job effectively.
> I also blame my friends, relatives and acquaintances that have been so easily seduced, but I'm not sure that's fair.

It's really not. That's like blaming people for driving cars before autonomous cars came out.
figured out how to get the ones I liked:
http://imgur.com/gPHVa
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"they are not supposed to set up their own server..."

What about people setting up a server for the first time? How else are they supposed to learn?

I built my first site when I was 14 and moved to a VPS when I was 17. Until I moved to Linode, I never had a reason to open Terminal.
Yep. It begs questions that you could care less about. Learn to let go.
Didn't know about this - thanks for sharing!
The fact that something is totally obvious is never a reason to not try to go back to the well with some more obvious blogspam.

After enough successful trips they may figure out what their optimal tradeoff is between spaminess and not winding up on the front page.
Oops - fixed.
>The google groups link in the page no longer works so I wonder if that's archived elsewhwere.

Here you go: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.compression/sSC04FEoAqE...
Just to be clear, I'm not advocating giving up the filesystem :) I wholeheartedly agree that too much work has been done there to just forsake the toolchain, but that doesn't mean you can't creatively compromise to get the best of both worlds. Exactly how that will play out will be really interesting to see I think.

We've been working on some big changes to the architecture of Light Table that should set us up for figuring that out in the future. A blog post is probably coming next week about some of that.
Are you factoring in the exorbitant cost of renting an apartment in the bay area when making this calculation?
> Sure, someday there'll be a "new Facebook", and then people can complain about that walled garden.

I'm of the opinion that Facebook isn't going to get trumped by anything but an NGO. :(
LG may double down on Optimus G, literally
> Incidentally, ill thought features like the timeline or apps like the Washington post that try to turn the site to a news site or a personal mausoleum will fail and be retracted few months later

The Washington Post app has been around longer than a few months.
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heh, i saw the same thing myself and i had the same sort of reaction but i think it's more an issue with the writer misjudging his audience (you can see this if you've ever taken a continuing education class or the opposite problem if you read lots of technical documentation).

But in any case, everyone starts somewhere and everyone's entitled to post their own 'linode post-mortem' especially if they're beginners and want to ossify their hazy thoughts somewhere. i don't begrudge the guy for just wanting to keep some record of his process and maybe some day he'll look back and edit the document to keep up with his level of knowledge at the time.
There's a rule in HTTPS everywhere https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere for your site. It redirects feross.org to https://www.feross.org which currently doesn't work.
The article author is confused. I clearly stated in the presentation that we're developing our own branch of MySQL, which is available on Github:

https://github.com/twitter/mysql
congrats on catching that bug. I use sqlite for a ton of stuff. I just used it at work a few days ago. It has so many use cases where you need a lite query language and not an rdbms.
It's too late for me to edit my original post now, but for posterity - airbnb contacted me and resolved the issue. The final customer service rep I spoke to was friendly and helpful, and they refunded the 3% listing/service fee as amends for the slow support.
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I wonder how much of that is due to the racist, sexist, and anti-gay speech that's endemic to online gaming? Do people take that as setting the tone for the industry?

Actually, when I think about it, it seems to me that I see less such speech in online games than I did even just a couple of years ago. Maybe I'm just playing different games from that crowd now.
"The problem with driving a car is that you lose almost all the skills you obtained by driving a horse carriage".

Yes, the image interop part is a bit more difficult to solve. I'm not saying it's exactly like the switch from carriage to car, but I'm saying that some changes are worth losing existing skills
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Cool, now i'm a gonna try and reduce the number of components to do the same ...
Women at work: 'Forget the balance. This is the merge'
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> I've had a situation that was sort of similar where a co-worker made a comment on my clothing being too uhm, urban.

That's not the same thing at all. The guy in question was accused of dressing too "thuggish" when he was wearing skinny jeans and wingtips. In other words, because he was black, regardless of what he was wearing.

A joke was made about how you were dressed because you had a hoodie with the hood up and are apparently white... like Eminem[1][2][3][4].

[1] http://cdn.preview.thumbplay.com/VAN/Thumb_Preview/Wall/UMG/...

[2] http://images.hitfix.com/photos/703638/eminem-hoodie_article...

[3] http://www4.pictures.gi.stylebistro.com/Eminem+Tops+Hoodie+0...

[4] http://inthehoodie.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/emine...
> My real question is why gold should back our currency now. How does it make sense in a modern economy?

I've always wondered this: Without gold (or something) backing a currency, what stops the printing of trillions and trillions, aggressively devaluing the currency out there?
You are not getting links to http://agoogleaday.com and google maps with random pics. I find this awesome
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Wow, so this guy is enough of an idiot to start capitalizing the "I" simply because "most people like it that way so what I think is irrelevant" and at the same time removing comments so no-one can say any more mean things about his articles? L-O-L. This might be a new low even for bloggers, congratulations.
It should be to run the `hostname` command, nothing more.
Ah. That makes more sense --- and I don't think English has a word for that. "Permanent bachelor", maybe?
yeah usually it takes about 12 months for facebook to overhaul any previous design.
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Doesn't it leak information?

If you know the algorithm (the evaluate function, if I understood correctly), you can make some assumptions about the data itself, even though you can't inspect the data you're operating on - e.g., exploiting the time it takes to compare password hashes [1].

[1] http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/9192/timing-atta...
good article. Also I like the word "Naughts" - first encounter for a word that is not too awkard for the 2000-2010 slot.
Some of these sysadmins were lucky to set up their first server when telnet was still considered acceptable to leave open.
When talking about embarrassingly parallel problems, it is okay to equate more transistors with more performance.
Thanks for letting me know.

I added HTTPS to my site back when I used Wordpress so that I could login to the admin panel over public Wi-Fi. But now that I'm using Jekyll (https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll) I didn't bother to set it up.

Will see if I can get my site removed from their whitelist.
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Most bike sharing bikes in North America don't have their own locks - they can only dock at designated stations.

So if you go into a store, you dock your bike. This gets around that, at least.
I think it /should/ portray me as a perfectly normal person who works hard during the day and then relaxes at home at night. God forbid you should have some time to yourself after working for 10-12 hours at work!
Scapegoats or not, I bet the remaining employees are more careful about the things they say from now on.
I don't feel that he is was trying to convey a literal conspiracy. It seems to me like he is saying that he does not like the racial culture of that area and that some African-Americans contribute to the culture in such a way that helps keep the negative dynamic going.
Ask HN: Reconsidering Jobs' Legacy
People tend to see Apple as it's products. Itunes, the iPhone, the mac - these revolutionary products are often celebrated as Steve's legacy.

I would propose that these are merely side-effects of Jobs' true legacy: Apple itself.

Consider this Jobs' quote (from D5):

" We don't build 4 billion dollar semiconductor fab. facilities that provide barriers to entry. We're not a capital intensive industry like that. All we are is our ideas, which means all we are is our people. And that's what keeps us going to work in the morning - the chance to hang around all these great people. And so I've always felt that recruiting is the heart and soul of what we do. "

Surely if all Apple is is its people, then there is a particular emphasis placed on educating employees. Could any apple employee comment on whether this is true ?

There seem to be many people arguing that Universities do a poor job of educating people. Can any Apple employees describe to what extent working at apple - and being surrounded by great people - was an edifying experience ? Was it in some regards more nurturing than University ?

Can a company be what a University should be ?
There's nothing creepy about it, comrade. Just be sure not to express any unpopular opinions, even if they have nothing to do with race. We wouldn't want anything to happen to you or your career, you see.
I've been a landlord in Ontario for 10 years and had a sublet request a few months ago. In Ontario, there are 2 stages: a tenant has to make a general request to sublet, and then a specific one. They can break the lease if the landlord refuses at either stage, but otherwise they have to provide a legitimate replacement tenant (as opposed to putting a random person forward as a pretext to break the lease) or stay until the lease ends.

Of course you could just stop paying rent and your tenancy will be terminated much faster and you won't have to go through the hassle of finding someone to sublet.

Edit: The above applies in the case of legitimate sublet request - a two week AirBNB guest wouldn't count.
Originally they used change sets. That didn't scale particularly well. Monticello is a distributed versioning system that was later developed for Squeak smalltalk. http://wiresong.ca/monticello/ . The Cuis project, a fork from squeak, imports/exports projects from your filesystem, regardless of whatever external VCS you use. http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/Index.html
Pedantic note: I'm not excusing them for lacking something as critical as a secure way to transmit sensitive information, but it's certainly more involved than "ten dollars worth of PHP."

You're probably looking at setting up a dedicated server to store the images (since you want the server locked down tighter than a normal web server, and you need to think about having different backups in place, etc) and then have one of the engineers spend a few days developing a system to upload the images and allow secured access to their support staff. Sure, writing the code to upload files is easy, but the security and UI take a good bit of effort. You're probably looking closer to $1k excluding the cost of hardware and the SSL cert.
Some random selections from my notes on building Linode web servers:

- Set up reverse DNS in the Linode manager: select the Linode, click on "Remote Access", click on "Reverse DNS" (under "Public IPs")

- Linodes don't offer very much disk space; use localepurge to keep the filesystem on a diet: # apt-get install localepurge

- After installing and setting up MySQL, don't forget: # mysql_secure_installation

- After installing Apache, change the following in httpd.conf: ServerToken -> Prod, ServerSignature -> Off, KeepAlive -> Off

- After installing PHP, edit php.ini to make it shut up: expose_php -> Off

There's a bunch of other fiddly stuff to do, and a seemingly endless combination of packages and strategies depending on what you're trying to accomplish. For instance, I currently run a stack with Postfix for MTA, awstats+jawstats for beautiful server-side site statistics, mod_deflate, mem_cache, fcgid/suexec to make it harder to break the server if a site is compromised, PureFTPd for really easy managed-by-MySQL FTP access, and a pile of other little minor tweaks and knobs turned.

MOST IMPORTANTLY: Backups, backups, backups. If you don't already have your own in-house backup service for your server (and I bet you don't!), then please take advantage of Linode's backup services: http://www.linode.com/backups/
seems not working on windows, a bug?
I've seen TriplePoint PR recommend buying something like 75k in ads on app launch to get into the rankings, then grow organically from there. Combined with having a bunch of reviews ready on the launch date, etc..
Southwest sues people who monetize this kind of product -- see a 2012 example at http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2012/03/02/Southwest-... or a 2007 example at http://www.internetlibrary.com/cases/lib_case511.cfm.
The idea is that BY LAW, you should not have to be subjected to that kind of environment in the workplace. If you don't like it, then get the law changed.
Cringely is such a hack.
I felt singled out for the way that I dress. Now I guess that anyone can debate here if what I said or the initial comment was racist, but I would say that it wasn't, just ignorant and stupid.

Personally, I would say that you are the one who is being ignorant and stupid by dressing like a clown, and then getting all huffy when someone gently pokes fun at you. Also, there's nothing racist about not liking someone's clothing. Clothing is not a race.

In conclusion, douches like you are the reason we have dress codes. Good job.
I assume this is for those of you too cheap to spend the $10 to have this done by Southwest. Pay for service that's worth it.
I find my Linode really useful for x11 forwarding to use Firefox in public places, or to get around web filters. Might be worth a mention of how to do this.
Now I wonder what happens if everyone on a flight signs up for this service. Who gets priority?
That is pretty cool! I don't think I've ever come across that. Thanks!
Pro tip: instead of changing ssh default port, setting up fail2ban and messing with iptables rules manually, just use ufw. You're welcome.
Or rent out a room or two and live in the house.
I think things are more complicated than statistics can properly capture.

Its possible to start a software business with very little resources. And there are people of all races that have done so. Do the users know what race of people are developing their software? Do they care?

That does not mean that some groups are not more wary of doing things due to past racism and the possibility of encountering it more when they go outside their comfort zone. Many, many people in all groups do what is expected over many other values.

I also think there are just as many people who will go out of their way to help and do business with someone different as will hold it against them. Frankly, for many skills, if you're a coding demon, they will hire you. I doubt you will find anyone in any group with significant talent that isn't turning away work.

There are other factors as well. Many people in some communities don't like it when people try to improve themselves. Hopefully that is on the wain.

And then there is the effect of violence in places like Oakland. Its hard to stay out at all hours coding if you have to worry about who'll you encounter on the way home.
It's far simpler than that for most of the year, solar powered showers are $20 and work really well (often, too well, I've been burned by one camping).

http://www.amazon.com/Stearns-SunShower-showers-Capacity-gal...
Normally you want to create an application that becomes more valuable as more people use it. This would be the opposite.
I'm not making money off of it. I just built it for myself and thought I would share
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I see this implied repeatedly by everyone, so could someone explain how customers on the ground using Apple Maps are somehow providing Apple with any data that could improve the maps?
Suppose the random file is 3,000,000 bytes long and happens to contain 135 bytes "X". Split the file on the letter "X" into 136 smaller files, each with no X in it. Then, return the files along with a "decompressor" script which says something like:

return(join("X", files 1 to 136))

Since the script takes up fewer bytes than the 136 "X" bytes would, the total size of the 136 files + decompressor script is less than the size of the original file.
Refactoring code can also include making the code comply with "Don't Repeat Yourself", which would include removing a large amount of code and replacing it with references to a single function, etc. It also includes removing deleting dead code, another thing relateable to minimalism.
I think it's less risky because it sends a clear signal to employees that if they're fired for being racist assholes, they don't have any real grounds for to sue for unlawful termination.

Even groundless unlawful termination lawsuits are a pain in the ass to deal with. It's better to discourage them than to litigate them.
Thanks for the advice on the out of memory reboot. I probably have Apache misconfigured, or my app is slowly leaking memory, but I've run into random downtime and an unresponsive server as apache runs out of memory.

One of the most annoying things I'm running into with Linode and other VPS services is dealing with my drive running out of space. I've been moving all my database stuff to Heroku and I'm much happier (plus the automatic backups are a dream).
This isn't racism. This is bullying, using, amongst many other things, marginally racist remarks as a weapon. That kind of stuff is as much racism as tasteless jokes about wife-beating constitute actual domestic violence.

This is clearly a very disfunctional and unhealthy work environment, but with the aggressively paranoid reaction to it is equally unhealthy and most of all, fails to address the actual problem. After firing the "racists", this is likely to remain a toxic environment who's next "victim" could very well be a white heterosexual male who for some other reason forms an easy target.
This is great SEO.

The author's website ranks first for "Linode Hosting Review".

He'll receive a commission for sales generated through his site, and being that his strategy is so targeted, it should convert well and deliver value to both him and Linode.

And he does it without ever having to resort to spam, the very opposite in fact; he does it through high quality content.

Good work feross!
That's great if you only have a single developer. Larger teams working together are going to have issue with this.

I think that may have been part of why the Lisp Machines died - not only were they obscenely expensive, but they were extremely expensive single user machines. This is fine if your entire development team is one MIT supergenius but becomes problematic when you merely have a handful of rockstars.
Your site could also compete with their 'Early Bird Checkin' service that that they charge for:

http://www.southwest.com/flight/early-bird-retrieve-reservat...
Hasn't even come close to happening yet. By default it's the first person who put their flight info on site (just like if you were checking in yourself).
I understood that it can be locked and trip ended at any 'designated' bike rack (as in its location is in some database), but the rack doesn't need any additional hardware since the bike locks itself.

But yes, the wording "ensures that users don’t need to lock their bikes at designated docking stations [...] the bike still need to be returned to designated spots at the end of the ride" is pretty bad and unclear.
Huh, I never realized that "maximum awesomness" was synonymous with "basic functionality".
Not really - the users own the posts and put them up in order to get publicity. It's like claiming 'I republished your classified ad for you in 6 papers' is a problem - virtually every classified ad would be pleased that they had more coverage.
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Bullshit. The only reason why people ask these things is because big software houses do so, and for some reason they think that their shitty web app needs a Google quality "rockstar developer".

The difference between reversing a string and pulling data from a database are, literally, completely different tasks. The killer is that the latter is something that a candidate will do in a job.

You're more than welcome to ask those questions, and you're probably likely to weed out the lowest common denominator types. In my experience, they're a waste of time and the best possible interview you can give to a developer is a frank face-to-face discussion about programming, and then getting them to work on a test project for two hours from your own code base. If they can do that much they can program.
Part of being a good communicator is being relatable. This worked so well with Steve because his results spoke for themselves. The is the important detail for anyone who wants to emulate his style. He was given the privilege of communicating like a visionary because of the results he achieved, not the other way around.
Yeh. But divs are so easy.

Seriously tho, I only used what I had to to do what I needed. I'd be happy to hear a 'better' way or explain why I did how I did.
Maybe people are more likely to perceive the behaviour of others towards them as racist, if they are racist themselves?

Really? The "I know you are, but what am I" defense?
I wouldn't dream of selling this site at that price.

With no risk or effort you are generating a solid return. Not knowing any details, I'd say you have a good chance of things getting better.

You're risking a few hundred bucks--big deal! You'll make the few hundred bucks over the next year.